Comrade Gorbunov,

Check whether visas permitting entry into Russia were dispatched to those representatives of American capitalists who have begun negotiations with Rykov concerning the provision to Russia of 40 million dollars' worth of agricultural machinery. If permission for entry has not yet been granted, establish the names of those responsible for the delay, so that I may subject them to severe punishment.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

21 March 1922

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First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

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